We are less productive because of the development of computers and the IT sphere. This is the conclusion reach by researchers from Bain&Company. And it is not at all absurd if you look at what people spend their time on at work.
A major consulting company has studi this issue. According to their data, a manager on average works only seven hours out of a 47-hour week. Where does the rest of the time go?
- Meetings and gatherings. They take up a whole 21 hours.
- Workers spend 11 hours on electronic specific database by industry communications: reading and sending messages.
- The remaining eight hours are stuck to these two big chunks, which take up more than half of the work week.
Other studies also show that the time it takes to complete tasks has increas dramatically in the last five years, and more than half of employees must consult at least ten others to get their work done.
Thus, technology ruces both the efficiency of the entire company and the personal efficiency of managers and many employees.
The issue of social mia addiction was taken up by Webtrate, which conduct a survey among 2,500 people and found that more than 50% of them constantly check for new emails and update social networks while working. Research has shown that 63 % of respondents forget their ideas and lose their thoughts while surfing social networks. 36% admitt that they spend about an hour checking email every day, and 16% spend more than three hours a day on this. 62% not that “hanging out” on the network ruces their overall level of happiness and satisfaction with life. The Internet gives us access to a huge range of information and reasons gambler data or procrastination.
Procrastination is a method of psychological defense, a temporary solution to an internal contradiction.
Internet procrastination allows people to escape from problems and forget for a while, but it also contributes to the constant growth of these problems. A survey by The Beans Group among students show that 40% of respondents procrastinate on the Internet because they do not want to work or study, the rest answer that they spend time online out of habit ( 21% ) or borom ( 20% ).
The question is, does procrastination really have such a big impact on personal effectiveness? And there is research to back this up. According to NBC News, people who prone to online procrastination score 20% lower on cognitive tests than people who do not consider themselves to be online procrastinators. As strange as it may seem, procrastination and mindfulness are good friends: missing a deadline and doing a bad job is not a problem, but recognizing the limits of when it is possible to endlessly read news on the Internet and when it is necessary to start working is something that only people who know what self-organization is can do.
Who is to blame for this?
Both employees and companies are to blame for wasting time. Companies love to implement new technologies if there is a trend for them. But they are not always truly useful and can often only take up additional time.
A lot also depends on employees. With the advent and spread of smartphones, as well as a large number of social networks, communications that are not relat to work are also spreading. Although the manager, without looking at pictures of cats, loses many hours a month on business communication on the network.
What to do?
Researchers from Bain & Company offer two solutions.
- Carefully sort out innovations. Only technologies that actually ruce work time, rather than increase it, should be implement.
- Think about solutions to internal how to manage your social media with hubspot problems and obstacles. New technologies are often us to circumvent existing problems, but only hide them.
Over the last 30 years, the time allocat for communications has inevitably increas. However, it is possible to slow down this process and get more done if you use technical progress wisely.
At the same time, employees themselves must take care of how they work and how much time they devote to work. There are a number of resources that restrict access to certain sites. Such programs and applications will help you focus on work and increase your personal efficiency:
- Freom . Blocks network connections, you can return the Internet only after rebooting the computer. The program is available for Windows, Mac OS, Android and will cost from $10 to $18.
- SelfControl . Available for free, but only for Mac OS. Blocks sites that distract from work for a period of time specifi by you. You won’t be able to unblock sites even by rebooting your computer. There are similar programs: SprintWork (for Windows), Focus (for Mac OS), Anti-Social (for Windows and Mac OS).
- Send from Gmail works for free for Google Chrome (for Gmail accounts) will help you stay away from checking your email, but there are a few tricks to generate urgent outgoing
- Unroll Me will save you from the flood of mailings. The service will automatically determine the addresses from which the mailings come most often and will offer to unsubscribe from them. Available for free for all browsers.
- Cold Turkey will block websites for free, and for $14.99 the programs that distract you mostoften: Telegram, Skype, etc. Available for Windows.